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Call For Proposals: Workshop on Animal Agriculture from the Middle East to Asia, May 11-12, 2017
The workshop will bring together experts to exchange ideas as an initial step toward the goal of a broader collaborative research project.
Mukti Khaire appointed first Girish and Jaidev Reddy Professor of Practice at Cornell University
Student voices: Researching History Textbooks in Sri Lanka
Sarani Jayawardena, Harvard College ’17, spent her summer researching how government-issued history textbooks in Sri Lanka have changed and how they depict ethnic minorities during the course of the civil war and afterward.
Shafiqul Islam wins Water Prize
Islam is the director of the Boston Water Group, a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who but work around the world to address problems that involve water.
Disease and politics: Lessons from Calcutta and Canton
At a recent meeting of the Brown/Harvard/MIT Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics on Oct. 14,
Prerna Singh, Brown University, compared the success of the smallpox vaccine in 19th century Calcutta and Canton to show that new medical technologies must be embedded in existing cultural norms to be effective.
Alum Q+A: Lessons from Dadabhai Naoroji
Dinyar Patel, a Harvard alum who is now an Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina, recently co-edited a volume of selected correspondences from the Dadabhai Naoroji Papers. “People like Naoroji were talking about a lot of similar issues to what politicians are talking about now in India,” Patel said in an interview with SAI.
Towards better health information exchange
SAI hosted a seminar with the Radcliffe Institute in September that sought to identify the technical and policy barriers to better health information exchange, with a focus on India.
Best Practices to Bolster Sales in the Indian Crafts Sector
Call for Applications: Young Scientists Development Course in India
Students from across India will be chosen to participate in a two-week immersion workshop that will allow them to explore some of the most exciting research topics in neuroscience.
Meet our Fellow: Shubhankita Ojha
Ojha’s research focuses on labour, maritime history and urban history, particulary Bombay dock labour.
Student voices: Nepal in recovery
Haibei Peng, GSD student, spent her summer researching traditional Nepalese architecture and post-earthquake reconstruction.